ThepaganAnglo-Saxonship burialatSutton Hoo, England, contained numerous items bearing the swastika, now housed in the collection of theCambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.The swastika is clearly marked on a hilt and sword belt found atBifronsinKent, in a grave of about the 6th century.

Hilda Ellis Davidsontheorized that the swastika symbol was associated withThor, possibly representing his hammerMjolnir– symbolic of thunder – and possibly being connected to the Bronze Age sun cross.Davidson cites "many examples" of the swastika symbol from Anglo-Saxon graves of the pagan period, with particular prominence on cremation urns from the cemeteries of East Anglia.Some of the swastikas on the items, on display at the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, are depicted with such care and art that, according to Davidson, it must have possessed special significance as afunerary symbol.Therunic inscriptionon the 8th-centurySæbø swordhas been taken as evidence of the swastika as a symbol of Thor inNorse paganism.